When ska’s 1990s revival flat-lined, perhaps Buck-O-Nine could have gone emo. Or electronica. Or tried a rootsy singer-songwriter thing.

All three absurd, right? Fast-forward a dozen years and remove Buck-O-Nine’s six members not named Jon Pebsworth, alone on his couch strumming “cowboy chords” on an acoustic guitar. Is it inconceivable that his inner Ryan Adams or Jeff Bridges might emerge?

“I didn’t really set out to do, ‘oh, hey, I’m going to do like an Americana singer-songwriter thing.’ It just kind of naturally happened,” Pebsworth said during a recent interview.

On Friday, Pebsworth will meet at The Vault in Temecula with some of his “Let It Sting” backers, his bandmates in Buck-O-Nine including recently rejoined drummer Steve Bauer. Expect a mixed audience for blasts of third-wave ska from discs such as “Songs in the Key of Bree,” “Barfly” and “Twenty-Eight Teeth.”

“It’s really cool, cause you’ll see some of the people that used to come see us in the ’90s. And then you’ll see new kids that are like 15, 16 years old, and it’s like wow, ‘Where did you guys come from? How did you guys hear about us?’” said Pebsworth, his band having started more than 21 years ago. “A lot of times, I’ll ask them, and they’re like, ‘Oh, my dad’s super into you guys.’ ... So we got the next generation, you know. Pretty sweet.”

The younger set lacks a Buck-O-Nine record to call its own. Creating one has obstacles: families, scattered home bases, jobs, other projects.

“I know that we want to do another one as soon as we all can," Pebsworth said.

Plan on that formula of jerky rhythms, distorted guitar and charging horns.

“When you put the seven of us together, that’s what is going to happen: that sound,” he said.

Whatever comes next will succeed 2007’s “Sustain," the band’s “semiretired" album, as Pebsworth put it. Buck-O-Nine’s part-time status started around 2001. The Glendale High alum returned to Los Angeles to become a publicist at SideOneDummy Records. He got in 10 years before the label laid him off in 2011.

More than 15 years have passed since single “My Town" hit No. 32 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. The performance schedule is lighter, the audiences are smaller, but it’s all a matter of perspective. Consider the case of grainy-voiced storyteller Pebs.

“Sometimes I play shows and there’s like (expletive) five people there,” Pebsworth said. “But it’s cool, because I’ll just get a beer and sit on a stool, and play some tunes and stuff. I just enjoy it. And it helps me grow as a songwriter.”